How would that even work? It’s literally a PC. It runs Linux. It’s as open a system as you’re going to get.
Valve aren't putting any exclusives on the Steam Machine because they see "the whole PC catalog as our 'launch exclusive'"
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sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
You little have reporters thinking it is a console.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If this was oracle/microsoft there would be a publicly available environment variable you can just set as work-around but is technically illegal.
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 weeks ago
I guess you could do a linux exclusive?
madthumbs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s supposed to eliminate the issues of Linux like unstable ABI/API, and fragmentation. -But like with Steamdeck, it’s probably going to have people saying they do more tinkering than actual gaming. Real PC gamers use Windows.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Real dumb ones.
I spent more time “tinkering” on windows after some updates to figure out how to set it back to how I want it after some update silently resets things to default or moves some setting for no good reason. And then there’s the “hey please use our shit software that you went out of your way to install an alternative to… no? Ok, I’ll ask later” full screen ads, ads in the start menu, ignoring default search engine or browser settings when it could. It was a hostile user experience.
Linux has been such a better experience that windows shills like you are a complete joke. Though interesting that you used hedging language here and talk about “people saying they do more tinkering than actual gaming” rather than “people doing more tinkering than actual gaming”, almost as if you know you’re full of shit but are trying to avoid outright lying for some reason.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
Lol GTFO.
I have used windows starting with windows 3.0, up to Windows 10 because of gaming. My PC is here JUST for gaming, except for stuff like the web and very,very light office work once a month or so, and running LLMs/GenAI for shits and giggles.
You know what I’m running nowadays?
Nobara (Fedora spinoff, because they have NVidia based installations)
And i haven’t seen any performance or stability issues, even tho i used multiple different NVidia cards on this machine, using a PCIe Wifi6 card and and extra PCIe controller to increase my limited NVME space.
Not once has any of the components on my PC acted up, asked for driver installations or something similar, outside of me having to reinstall the graphics and mesa drivers after upgrading from Nobara 40 to 41, and that was because i ran out of space on my boot partition and i didn’t realize it at first.
If you aren’t in the crowd which plays mainly games with Anticheat (and that’s not because of Linux but because of the decisions made by the publishers), Linux is the way to go. I can run games from the DOS era just as well as i can play the latest titles, and emulation support is actually better than on windows with things like Retrodeck. If something doesn’t work, i very often have the option of just dropping by on Github/Gitlab/Codeberg and get help there or simply report a bug that will often get fixed way faster than Microsoft would drop me a “please reboot and if it doesn’t work recover windows” answer on their boards.
If you value gaming, you should value Linux. Because it always was the OS that was ideologically closer to what gamers wanted - and nowadays it’s technically closer.
Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Defectus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
After how well all games worked on the steamdeck I decided to move from windows on my gaming PC and laptop. Probably the same amount of tinkering as with windows. I have not looked back since. Best decision in a long time.
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Not providing a terminal and desktop environment, for instance? Locking down the BIOS? What would it matter if it ran Linux if you could never leave Steam Big Picture?
TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
You could still buy the game on other pcs so it wouldn’t be exclusive to steamOS
Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Half life 3 steam machine exclusive would break the internet
eleijeep@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Half Life: Linux
Gork@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
They’re waiting for your vim commands, in the test chamberrrrrrr
RiQuY@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
What will happen if they release the next Half-Life as a Linux only build? There is no Wine in Windows. Does WSL is even able to run games?
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why would they make games that could only be played on Steam machines?
That would be absolutely insane because number of Steam users who have has to be like 0.00001% or something crazy.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s more work to make a shittier experience for their customers. Valve knows that alienating customers is the dumbest possible move to make.
homik@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Yet that’s still exactly a thing that many other platforms would do. Maximise lock-in.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I think it’s more likely making a game that’s exclusive to Steam/PC. I don’t think there’s really any way to make one exclusive to the Steam Machine. At most, it could be exclusive to Linux.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
putting an exclusive game on the steam machine would be an extremely dumb move anyways. valves not in the business trying to sell 5+ figure levels of these devices
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
It’s estimated that they’re selling 12,000-15,000 Steam Machines a weeks and my non-professional back-of-the-napkin math says that’s five figure levels.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Given that it is designed as a general platform that makes zero sense.
Also, why is anyone holding their breath for Valve of all people to produce games?
Neomega@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What a painfully stupid thing to say.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 weeks ago
What a painfully stupid article to write
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’m pinning this article to read later, but I do have to say that the amount of people who have completely missed the point of the SM baffles me. It’s a low power, quiet Linux machine and people seem to have this drummed up idea that it’s some powerful ps5-killing console.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You missed the false advertising as 4k gaming machine. Which it simply isn’t. It’s a 1080p gaming machine
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I did actually miss that, but I saw it now. Pretty deceitful of them not to mention the use of FSR upfront.
rapchee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
there are tons of pc, probably even linux exclusive games already, that will never be available on consoles
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Exclusive deals are anti consumer practices anyway.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve been saying this for years and always get roasted alive for not wanting to shell out ~$500 just to be able to play one fucking game.
The only reason I ever got to play the new god of war games is because I got into a relationship with someone who has a Playstation. If she didn’t have one I’d have never played.
It’s the same way I am with the switch 2. I’m not buying a whole new console just for a new Zelda (which I don’t even like anymore) or potentially a new smash bros.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I agree. However, the only reason anyone wants those mostly is because of the marketing. I have too many better games that I need to get to on PC already. While some of the console exclusives look interesting, I’ve realized they aren’t made for me anyway. They aren’t really made for anyone for that matter. They’re made for everyone, which means they’re made for no one.